Software Technical Leader

🕒 August 14

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $169.6k - $214.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Build highly scalable distributed solutions across the full stack • Enable user experiences and measurable business growth • Ensure system reliability, performance, and operational excellence • Add tests, telemetry, and alerting systems • Own projects from conception through production release • Influence, facilitate, and work across different teams • Partner with engineering managers, product managers, and collaborators to define team direction based on engineering and business priorities • Solve software defects, networking issues, and customer-reported problems • Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability • Define project milestones and metrics for loosely defined business problems

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field and 12+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience • 3+ years of professional coding experience with web backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails or similar • Experience with Go, Ruby, or Python • Experience rolling services out safely to customers using feature flags, A/B tests, or similar techniques • Experience making architectural and system design choices • Ability to communicate trade-offs and coach other team members • Experience with emulation and simulation of networking devices • Project leadership experience defining project stepping stones from loosely defined business problems • Ability to identify metrics to track project progress • Ability to work across all layers of the stack in a fast-paced agile engineering team • Preferred: Experience with networking devices • Preferred: Experience with Cisco CML • Preferred: Experience in systems software design or large-scale distributed networking solutions • Preferred: Experience working across cross-functional or geographically distributed engineering teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available • 10 paid holidays plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid birthday day off • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid personal wellness days • Paid vacation time for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies • Incentive compensation for sales-plan employees